I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.

Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day.

I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

The rules are very strict.

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

I think Stephen King must be the most terrified person in the universe.

You have to be easily scared to know what it's like to be scared.

I still have this deep-down fear that if I go poking into the bushes I might find a dead body.

Never compare yourself to others because you are unique and beautiful in your own ways.

My architecture is the architecture of survival.

The verification services that could be offered would be applied appropriately according to the business process that was involved.

Professional Southerners sicken me.

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

We are not a monolithic group of individuals, not every single person believes the exact same thing.

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one.